The Home Slopping Network
by Charlie Warzel
If a machine can generate endless hours of passable television, who is actually supposed to watch it?
0:00 / 9:22 · Narrator Charon
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2026-08-25
Today's Crosscut
Democratic Party Identity
Will the political future belong to a quiet Iowa auditor dropping partisan labels to check the math, or to a loud revival of aggressive class conflict straight out of the New Deal?
A Democrat in Name Only × The Democrats’ On-Again, Off-Again Class Politics
0:00 / 24:48 · Narrator Sulafat/Charon/Vindemiatrix
Future-gazing →
Focal Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer Has Divided Physicians. Will New Data Change Minds?
by Annalisa Merelli
When a cancer cure changes your body forever, how much risk is a normal life worth?
0:00 / 13:49 · Narrator Gacrux
Behind the news →
The U.S. Government Must Preserve the Soft Power of Its Sanctions
by Anton Moiseienko
What happens to a country's sanctions when the rest of the world stops taking them seriously?
0:00 / 9:06 · Narrator Algieba
For the curious →
A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World
by Conor Feehly
Does the brain see the world as it is, or as the body needs it to be?
0:00 / 16:20 · Narrator Sulafat
Smart escape →
‘Tony’ Review
by Sonny Bunch
How does a lying college student find grace in the back of a restaurant kitchen?
0:00 / 10:37 · Narrator Rasalgethi